Rudolf Steiner’s Threefold Social Order

Rudolf Steiner, born in Vienna in 1861, was a scientific genius and created a new way of thinking in the 20th century. Steiner studied Goethe’s scientific works and became an anthroposophist as well as a theosophist. When the Gilded Age had past and the First…

John Maynard Keynes in 1927 Looking Back at Winston Churchill on “The Great War”

John Maynard Keynes: Mr. Churchill on the War: The World Crisis, 1916–1918. By Winston Churchill (New York: Charles…

The War to End All Wars

The reasons for the First World War are murky and have been the subject of overwhelming dis-course, but the fact remains that this war killed 17 million people, traumatised a generation, overturned old empires and changed the world’s political order. Not long after the guns fell silent…

On Remembrance

A personal response to “Testament of Youth” and “Letters From a Lost Generation”.

The impulse that led so many young men to volunteer to fight in the First World War is difficult to understand. What drove their desire to pour “…out the red sweet wine of youth…” so freely on…

The Point Of Writing (About Trauma)

Language is a monument to the transmission of trauma. Great War literature advises to choose our words — even our syllables — carefully.